On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:46:08AM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > > GNOME plays sounds through esd. If esd is not running, > and sound is enabled in GNOME, and an app issues a sound, then > GNOME pauses or hangs up. So one wants esd to be running.
i don't use gnome, but i edited /etc/esound/esd.conf to add the option "auto_spawn=1". With this option, libesd will spawn esd when needed. > I had a problem getting esd running. After a day of tinkering > I discovered that the problem was that my loopback device was > not configured. The solution was to do "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1". When the switch to /etc/network/interfaces was made, for some reason the line for localhost was commented out. Check that file for more information. i don't know if this has been fixed in more recent packages. -- finger for GPG public key.
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